The Gascon Punished (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
Poems about mortify (21 Poems)
Hymn To Satan (Giosue Carducci Poems)
To you, creation'smighty principle,matter and spiritreason and senseWhilst the winesparkles in cupslike the soulin the eyeWhilst earth andsun exchangetheir smiles ...
Reasons To Persuade The Sick To Be Patient (Rees Prichard Poems)
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
The Revolution At Market-Hill (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From distant regions Fortune sendsAn odd triumvirate of friends;Where Phoebus pays a scanty stipend,Where never yet a codling ripen'd:Hither the ...
The Gulf of All Human Possessions (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
Nebraska (Jack Kerouac Poems)
April doesnt hurt hereLike it does in New EnglandThe groundVast and brownSurrounds dry townsLocated in the dustOf the coming locustLive ...
Upon The Vine Tree (John Bunyan Poems)
What is the vine, more than another tree?Nay most, than it, more tall, more comely be.What workman thence will take ...
Upon The Bee (John Bunyan Poems)
The bee goes out, and honey home doth bring,And some who seek that honey find a sting.Now would'st thou have ...
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The Second Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Again th' Almighty mounts his lofty Throne, And on his Right Hand sate th' Eternal Son. The Royal Writs were ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Fifth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
The Farewell (Charles Churchill Poems)
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
A Poem on Elijahs’Tran (Benjamin Colman Poems)
Coelo Musa beat.Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.—Nec meus audetRem tentare pudor, quam Vires serre recusent.Hor. Ep. 1. Lib. 2.I ...
Contentment; Or Hints To Servants On The Present Scarcity (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, Letter I (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.A View from the Parades at Bath, with some Account ...
XLVI. Continency (Ellis Walker Poems)
Before you're married, strive to live as freeAs possibly you can from venery;Though 'tis a lust of a rebellious kind,That ...
Inside And Outside (Allen Tate Poems)
INow twenty-four or maybe twenty-fiveWas the woman's age, and her white brow was sleek;Lips parted in surprise, the flawless cheek;The ...
Ed (Eugene Field Poems)
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion,You cudn't stop him any more'n a ...
Ed (Eugene Field Poem)
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion, You cudn't stop him any more'n ...
Musketaquid (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As, when a lofty pile is raised, We never hear the workmen praised, Who bring the lime, or place the ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...